Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation?
Not Another Politics Podcast
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Is There Anything to Be Done About Demand Effects?
The finding here in this paper that people respod in the expected direction to the fact check is not surprising on average. But nevertheless, it is not necessarily reassuring, because it could just mean that people are manipulable. The good ews is then that a no. Thisolution is to keep on providing new pieces of information or new points of view. It would be interesting to know if people are pretty good at processing what are and aren't good arguments.
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